Fifteen short stories rife with irony, historical overtones, and a feeling for the picaresque include accounts of Carry Nation's fight against topless bars and Tonto's fortieth birthday, which passes without well wishes from the Lone Ranger ...
“She said it was an accident, but she was too good a shot. They hanged her for it. And then Grover Cleveland was killed by twelve sheeted women on the White House lawn. At teatime,” the woman said. “Wait a minute.” Alison stopped her.
Gifted novelist Fowler (Sarah Canary and The Sweetheart Season) delights in the arcane, and, as a result, these 15 clever tales are occasionally puzzling but never dull.
'Go Back' seems somewhat anomalous among the stories of Black Glass . Why? What, missing or present, separates it from the rest of the tales? What, nonetheless, shows its spirit as consonant with the collection? 15.
We commu nicate with her in the manner Linda described and we have identified ourselves as Venusians, ... body and abuses it: Gretchen dislikes her body but believes politically in the injus tice of current standards of physical beauty ...
Black Glass
Dominant Aboriginal men remain opaque and impenetrable — black glass. They are plainly engaged in their own impenetrable and selective erasures and exclusionary resistance. Aboriginal women are so thoroughly marginalised as to be ...
Now Tally and Grace must struggle to find each other — or just to survive. Narrated by a cast of unforgettable characters, Black Glass is the work of an exceptional new talent.
A revealing look at gays and the military, BLACK GLASS tells the story of a sensitive youth embarked on a nightmarish voyage away from innocence to Vietnam.
Black Glass reveals a first-world city increasingly dominated by surveillance, segregation and civil unrest.
"A dark, relentless and violent character portrait of a sadist.